Cognitivism may refer to:
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Cognitivism (ethics)
Cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that ethical sentences express propositions and can therefore be true or false (they are truth-apt), which noncognitivists deny. Cognitivism is so broad a thesis that it encompasses (among other views) m ...
, the philosophical view that ethical sentences express propositions and are capable of being true or false
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Cognitivism (psychology)
In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical framework for understanding the mind that gained credence in the 1950s. The movement was a response to behaviorism, which cognitivists said neglected to explain cognition. Cognitive psychology deriv ...
, a psychological approach that argues that mental function can be understood as the internal manipulation of symbols
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Cognitivism (aesthetics) Aesthetic cognitivism is a methodology in the philosophy of art which relies on research in cognitive psychology, particularly using audience responses to art. Although the term is used more in the humanities, the methodology is inherently interdisc ...
, a view that cognitive psychology can help understand art and the response to it
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Anecdotal cognitivism
Anecdotal cognitivism is a method of research using Anecdotal evidence, anecdotal, and Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic evidence through the observation of animal behaviour. A psychological methodology that attributes mental states to animals on ...
, a psychological methodology for interpreting animal behavior in terms of mental states
See also
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Cognition
Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses all aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, thought, ...
, the study of the human mind
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Cognitive anthropology
Cognitive anthropology is a subfield of anthropology influenced by Linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and biological anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission ...
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Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include percep ...
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Computationalism
In philosophy of mind, the computational theory of mind (CTM), also known as computationalism, is a family of views that hold that the human mind is an information processing system and that cognition and consciousness together are a form of comp ...
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Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the Body (biology), body and the Reality, external world.
The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a ...
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Situated cognition
Situated cognition is a theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts.
Situativity theorists suggest a model of knowledge and learnin ...
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Socio-cognitive
Sociocognitive or socio-cognitive is a term especially used when complex cognitive and social properties are reciprocally connected and essential for a given problem.
It has been used in academic literature with three different meanings:
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Symbol grounding
The symbol grounding problem is a concept in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and semantics. It addresses the challenge of connecting symbols, such as words or abstract representations, to the real-wor ...
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